what's going on it's all my sonic fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott
back again with a brand new movie review and today we're discussing sonic the hedgehog 2 which i got
the opportunity to check out in theaters and i'm very excited to share my thoughts with you all and
let you know if i think it's worth checking out in theaters on april 8th all in this spoiler-free
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sonic from you being a fan of the character did you enjoy the film that did come out before this
one and based on that were you excited were you anticipating this movie and of course once
you've seen the sequel what do you think let's talk everything from your pros your cons your
thoughts on sonic the addition to the cavs the human characters jim carrey what was your favorite
moment what were some things that didn't work for you all and of course let's talk about this for
a brief second there is a post credit scene and based on that pro's credit scene my question for
you is are you excited to see more let's talk about it all in the comments below so going
into this sequel i did i'm a fan of the character number one grew up with the character not a super
deep fan but i appreciate the character growing up as a kid i had a really good time with the first
one that came out a couple years ago and based on you know the trailer and all the stuff there i'm
like you know what i think i might really enjoy this sequel maybe even more so than the first one
i'm going to say it right now all the stuff that i enjoy about the first one they double down in the
sequel which is something you want to see from one to two is growing the characters growing the world
and this film does that starting off with the one of the shining stars of the first one sonic
himself we obviously got the redesign and having been schwartz voices character i think it's like
peanut butter and jelly they go hand in hand child like energy dislikable energy that ben brings to
the character and the arc that sonic gets from one into two there's a lot of growth in the character
there's more responsibility there's more things to do there's discovery within the character and i
really enjoy what we get with sonic and there are moments that i'm like oh yeah from a video game
perspective people are going to love what happens to sonic in this film which brings me to adding
more to the story and adding to the cast tales and sonic their back and forth their friendship
was fantastic i thought what tails brought to the role number one just a little side tangent i saw
this at a press screening and as you know a bunch of press members that i've seen before but it was
also open to the public and there were tons of family and kids that were just having a great
time they were laughing just having a blast and it just brought me back to being that young and just
having something fun to look forward to and having a fun time with the film again it didn't affect
my score but it made the enjoyment and made the the experience that much better and going back to
me tying that to tails there is a a plot that we have with the character it it was just so
beautiful to see and it was just a message and a theme of being yourself surrounding yourself
with like-minded people and as an adult you can always look into that and it's like appreciate
that but i love that the younger generation can see that type of message so i thought tales and
sonic were fantastic but there's also another duo that was great in this film and that is knuckles
and dr eggman starting off with knuckles voiced by idris elba who i'm not gonna lie
it took a minute to get used to the voice but idris he knocks it out of the park in this role
seeing that character knuckles who gets a legit arc and growth and within his own right seeing the
warrior having a mission and growing and learning and having some things that he develops and
reveals that he has throughout the film i thought it was great and i'm really i wasn't too like i'm
like does knuckles need his own tv show based after seeing this film i'm looking forward to
checking that out on paramount plus so i thought knuckles was great and i thought that the look and
design and again the arc was great but the back and forth between knuckles and obviously sonic but
knuckles and dr egg being played by jim carrey who was one of my favorite elements of the first one
you can just tell when the actor's having a great time in the role and you can just see that with
jim carrey in this movie he's channeling like his older jim carrey which you got that in the first
one like that 90s ace ventura just having a fun time the puns are out of this world in this movie
and his performances out of this world i had such a fun time with the character there's a lot of
easter eggs a lot of nods to the character i know a lot of people their biggest criticism with dr
uh eggman the first one like opposite he didn't look like dr robotnik but there are moments in
this film that they kind of give you and i'll just kind of look at that that makes it very
video game accurate so i enjoyed those dynamic duos but also there is an increase in the budget
you know 20 30 million dollars more and you can see that in the visual effects which i thought
were clean also from a story perspective this is what i really enjoyed about the film the lore
the mythos the clans the backstory i feel like now it's seeing a sequel that i think that the
studio might have been like we can't throw that in because it might be too inside baseball but come
this sequel they're like let's have fun let's dive into the imro and you know more into the backstory
of the characters in a different clan so i really appreciate it and i feel like the creators
really did a good job of not only allowing people to enjoy what we got from one into the sequel but
also for people that play the video games there are a lot of knots and stuff in the video games
and i really appreciated what the directors and the writers did which i think they did
the direction and the writing was just as good uh in this sequel than it was in the first one so i
definitely want to give kudos to the production but there are some some criticisms and again i
appreciate a film that knows what it is i mean within the first 10 minutes there's a fart joke
so you know it knows the kids are there to have a good laugh but there are moments where
kid-friendly films want to attend to the adults that are in the audience and there's a plot that
i think was completely unnecessary it wasn't that it was like absolutely atrocious and just
like ridiculous and just terrible in all accounts but it just felt it didn't need to be there which
is and i i'm a big fan of natasha rothwell i'm a big fan of shamar more who that man never ages but
there's this whole side subplot that gets our main humans like out of the house for obviously
uh sonic and and tails can grow and become friends but they go to hawaii and that whole
wedding unnecessary craziness that goes on there to me it took away from the fun and the momentum
i was having with sonic on his journey and his adventures and honestly that subplot added to be
like 10 to 15 minutes that i thought ultimately could have been ticking out of the film and
really kind of go under that two-hour mark that the film has in his run time it's not to the
transformers like oh my gosh here we go with this stupidness but it's just like whenever we would
go from everything with sonic and knuckles if we transition over to the humans it kind of slowed
the momentum down from my personal taste and again i enjoy the actors and james martin he's great
him and his wife and their dynamic they're they're doing things they're not just like pointless human
characters like i said like i think from the transformers world but it's just like
that plot to me just didn't work with the wedding stuff and when you see the film you know what i'm
talking about and then there's also going to you know one of my favorite parts of the film
the relationship between sonic and tails there's this bar scene that i can see on paper the
sentiment of how they bonded how they became friends but i just wish it was maybe different
it's this whole dance-off thing that i think was just a little bit too ridiculous for my taste
but i just wish that they could have found a more creative way to really submit their friendship so
honestly those are my only criticisms so before i give you all my overall thoughts on my score if
you haven't already make sure to like the video share the video and leave your thoughts in the
comments and of course subscribe and come and join the community overall signing too knows exactly
what it is knows who his target audience is it has a fun time there's growth in the characters
i really enjoyed the addition to knuckles and tails jim carrey is just as good as he was in
the first one which brings me to overall i think that i enjoyed this sequel more than
the first one it does have its criticisms the humans aren't that bad but i you know they're
manageable i wish they could have found creative ways to add to humans into the story but overall
i laughed i enjoyed the visual effects i'm really excited for that post credit scene and more from
this franchise i'm going to give sonic 2 a 3.8 out of 5 and i have to say if you're a fan of
the character from the video game standpoint if you're a fan of the 2020 film you're gonna have
a good time with this like i said i personally enjoyed this one more than a sequel you know
the first one and i enjoyed the first one so that bodes well for me like i said i'm giving it a 3.8
out of 5. so hey that's my pros that's my cons i recommend you all give it a watch and when you do
let me know your thoughts what did you think about the characters the plot were some things
that didn't work for you all and again do you want to see more and are you excited for the future
of this franchise let's talk about it in the comments section if you stuck around to this
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